Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1887-02-18

Thumb, black that | bought. The next
colt was a poor one. Ebenezer told me a
dozen times that Young One Eye was by
Whistle jacket, Her dam had only one
eye don't know that ever saw the dam.
She was yellow-bay mare, looked like
her daughter, Young One Eye. think
jackson bought the Kent mare with her
Jam of f. Seely, but the colt might have
been foaled his. jackson was left indie
pendently rich, but bust up. lie lived at
Oxford. The Bellfounder mare (kent
mare) was a year younger than the
Whistle Jacket mare. Bellfounder was
a yellow-bay horse with one or two
white hind feet; good, heavy, blocky-
made horse; should think 1873; looked
more like work horse than a stallion or
trottng horse. Seely ran through every
thing. running horses. etc. Idont know
that | ever saw the Kent mare after she
came back; did not see her in New
York.
lawful was a mean-looking horse,
long neck. Dutchman was Pennsyl-
vania horse, team horse, Bill Sparks
bought him for SS5; a big, square,
bony horse, 16 hands, bay, with
chunked little bay horse. Sea Gull was
a big horse, II hands, pretty as picture,
but ugly. The Kent mare had nice
head, nice mare all over; nice DISPOSE
Gntt ho, oil
Orange county"
At a second interview Mr.. Brooks said
~ think it was the next spring after
the deep snow OS36) that we broke the
summer; have been here ever since.
did not see her in New York. Jonas
Seely came down here and bought her of
Kent with colt by her side by Abdallah.
This was told me; did not see it. Seely
put her to Tom Thumb and raised black
mare colt; pricked and locked at four
years. Again bred to Tom Thumb had
black horse colt. sold for $40.
bought him at the same price; put him
to cart and sold him to Jonas Sparks
Kent mare was a fine bay mare, good
rich, heavy bay, blood bay; don't think
any white except she may have had g
feet; wasn't locked when we drove her
| think | saw her after she came back
but wouldn't swear to it. Think | saw
her a dozen times in lot with colts.
h,,. To ,.o, ~
All my folks lived there. Kent bought ;
1 horse colt older than One Eye paid $500
: always heard Seely sold mare to Ken
and bought her back He sold the blacl
. colt from Tom Thumb to Nanderwert o
= Florida. | bought of him. The Ken
j.; mare was full-blooded bay mare. darl
bay. cherry bay. describe her As | saw
n her when helped break her. Good man
and tail, about 1913, little broad RICH
Il across the hips, little bit leggy. Dam,
big, one-eyed bally mare, long-legged
but 90 all day. | think Ehenezer tol,
/. me he traded for her. Louis Jayne o
: Florida might know always suppose
:. Kent bought this mare direct of Seely
but knew nothing about it except what
heard"
1t will be seen that the evidence of MI
Brooks, taken alone, would prove moth
e ing but taken with the other evidenc
= given establishes abundantly, we think
. the breeding of the Chas. Kent mare, an
y we have:
y Charles Kent mare; bay mare, dar
" points, about 1873; fine smOOth-turne
" and well-proportioned mare of great mel
" it, "A little leggy in her youth, but descrii
l. ing as blocky as brood mare foaled 1873
~ bred by Josiah jackson, Oxford, n. Y.
l. sire, the celebrated trotting and trottins
'e bred horse imp. Bellfounder; dam, On
~ Eye by Bishops Hambletonian; g. d
Silvertail, said to be by Messenger an
+. also by a son of Messenger; g. g. d., Oh
'd Black jim. Sold young to Peter Seel,
he by him to Ebenezer Pray, drover, by hi
Is to VIM. Chivers, butcher. of Fulton ma
IN ket, New York, by him to Charles Ken
t. same place, who sold her to Dick Ca
er men, wealthy builder of Washingto
y, Heights, n. y, for $500, in whose hant
Of she was injured by running down hill
~ bought back by Chas. Kent and Dan
nj Sweeny for 500, bred twice to Abdallal
TO then standing in New Jersey, and sol
II, with siX-weeks-old colt by her side f,
nd $50 to Peter Seely of Sugar Loaf, o
n, ange Co., n. Y, who raised several col
as from her and sold her in 1919, with Han
d. bletonian by her side, to VIM. NJ. Ry
l dyk, Chester, n. Y, for Sl25, in who's
ne hands she died, aged about 30 years.
II, This is giving the pedigree of One Ely
ne dam of the Kent mare, not upon our ow
er Investigations, but upon statements her
ld tofTe made by the Seelys, which ha'
70 been published and generally accepted.
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